Cisco's Foundation AI Advances AI Supply Chain Security With Hugging Face
Cisco, Tuesday, August 5th, 2025
Today, Hugging Face adds a new model on average every 7 seconds, and the platform now hosts nearly 1.9 million models available to developers worldwide.
This unprecedented scale - driven by contributors globally, spanning both trusted institutions and independent creators - fuels a wave of innovation while also reinforcing the need to secure the AI supply chain.
As highlighted in our previous analysis, AI supply chain risks now permeate every stage of the AI lifecycle - from vulnerable software dependencies and malicious or backdoored model files to poisoned or non-compliant datasets. Given this complexity, it is increasingly challenging for any single organization to address these issues alone. Effective security of the AI landscape requires close collaboration across the community to secure AI.